![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Screenwriter, Actor Biography:New Jersey-ite "Jeff Anderson" was working at AT&T when high school friend/aspiring writer-director "Kevin Smith" cast him as one of the leads in his exceptionally low-budget first feature "Clerks" (1994). As lackadaisical video store employee Randal, Anderson was foul-mouthed slacker apathy incarnate, debating all manner of personal and pop culture minutiae with convenience store worker Dante. A hit at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, "Clerks" became one of the emblematic 1990s independent film success stories -- and earned acting neophyte Anderson an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance. Despite that recognition, Anderson has since only played a bit part in Smith's controversial religious comedy "Dogma" (1999) and voiced Randal in the short-lived Clerks: The Animated Series (2000). Anderson married his "Clerks" co-star "Lisa Spoonhauer" in 1995.
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